lyrics by Lin Parker in The Mathematics Teacher October 2001 may be sung to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan

I am the very model of a modern mathematician;I'm fluent in all measurings, both metric and American;I know that pi is 3.141592654And many many many many many many places more.

I can figure averages-mean and mode and median;And I can crunch the numbers for a standard deviation;I check the tails of normal curves, 5 percent in each; and henceReject the null hypothesis with ninety percent confidence.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;At finding max and minimums, I'm simply just miraculous;In matters mathematical- both simple and quadratical,I am the very model of a modern mathematician.

In matters mathematical- both simple and quadratical,He is the very model of a modern mathematician.

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There are 10 kinds of people.Those that understand binary and those that don't.

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